Places Pat Wants to Go

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

This incredible collection contains rare steam-powered engines, rides, and trains.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

Traditional architecture and ancient irrigation systems are on display in this gorgeous mountain village.

Where artisans use centuries-old techniques to build traditional Arabian ships.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.